Vancouver author Steven Galloway has written three books, most recently the international bestseller The Cellist of Sarajevo. His recent conversation with a Facebook phisher is creating a buzz on social media.'
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Vancouver author Steven Galloway has written three books, most recently the international bestseller The Cellist of Sarajevo. His recent conversation with a Facebook phisher is creating a buzz on social media.'
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Vancouver author Steven Galloway has written three books, most recently the international bestseller The Cellist of Sarajevo. His recent conversation with a Facebook phisher is creating a buzz on social media.'
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Vancouver author Steven Galloway has written three books, most recently the international bestseller The Cellist of Sarajevo. His recent conversation with a Facebook phisher is creating a buzz on social media.'
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Vancouver author Steven Galloway has written three books, most recently the international bestseller The Cellist of Sarajevo. His recent conversation with a Facebook phisher is creating a buzz on social media.'
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Social media is buzzing over an apparent attempt by a phisher to scam a Vancouver author. In this conversation which took place on Facebook, it didn't end well for the phisher.

“Am so happy to tell you about the $100,000.00 and a brand new truck giving out to people from facebook world lottery. Do you get yours?” the phisher began in the exchange, according to an account published by Steven Galloway, a bestselling Vancouver author and associate professor in UBC's creative writing program.

Galloway strung the phisher along for the next two days, allowing her to think he was about to send some money her way.

"I never really intended to take it as far as I did," Galloway told the Sun Wednesday via Facebook message. "I still can't quite believe that the idiot on the other end of this didn't get what was happening. There's a great Seinfeld episode where Kramer and a car salesman wonder how far they can go without getting gas, so they just drive into the night. This was sort of like that."

Then Galloway posted the exchange on his Facebook wall just for his friends; what he hadn't anticipated was that it would be shared repeatedly. He knew it had gone far beyond his circle of friends when he found at one point the exchange had been viewed 25,000 times, and counting.

"As a guy who normally spends five or six years working on a project, it's an odd thing to see something that you do for kicks because you can reach such a wide audience. Maybe I should reassess some of my life choices," Galloway joked.

Galloway's most recent book is the international bestseller The Cellist of Sarajevo.

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